I think we've had quite the little Facebook experience with AoIR this last week. During the conference there was a tremendous amount of after-hours (and no doubt during-hours) friending going on as people met one another then rushed to FB to friend one another. People used status reports to comment on panels and coordinate with one another. In the days since Vancouver there's been a huge amount of status reports about getting home, rain or the absence thereof, continued post-conference friending, laughing over shared photos (especially those taken at the banquet of everyone in Canada hats!), etc. Seems to me there's been a hearty effort to continue the camaraderie of the conf via Facebook in ways I half-heartedly described as diasporic this morning -- the conference is repeatedly described as a "home" and, once apart, Facebook seems to be the venue of choice for keeping the social dimensions of those connections active. Meanwhile, and surely relatedly, the AoIR facebook group just topped 800 members. On another note, this marks the first time since the dawn of AoIR that I have not been on its executive committee and I just want to say many thanks to everyone who's kept this association going. To see the scholarly collaborations, friendships, and even marriages (I know of 3) that have come out of AoIR is incredibly rewarding. I know we're in good hands with the new exec. Thank you thank you thank you for making a dream into a reality. And thanks for the champagne too, much appreciated :-) Nancy